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Do thou Groat Liborty Inspire our Souls and make our lives in thy possession happy, or our Deaths Glorious in thy Just Dofonoe."BENNETTS VILLE. S. C.. FEBRUARY 9, 1887. NO. 9.l?eenuso or Theo.rd y lifo lion grown so dear to moUscnuse of thou IIVly maiden with tho oyes dem uro,And quiet, mouth and forehead pure.Joy makes a Bummor In my heartHecauso thou art IThe vory winda melodious hoIteeauso of theo tTho rose, is sweeter for thy sake,Tho waves in Koiter muslo break.On bright or wing tho swallows dart(teca ti MO thoa artiMy ?ky is swept of shadows lreoHeaaUBQ of thee tKeri ow ami care have lost their sting,The blossoms glow, tho linnets sing,AM things in my delight have partlb causo tl on nrl IT i 1H FATAL QU AUREL.uj?ufc ( say you shall not.""And 1 say I will.Tho speakers were husband and wire.The iermor leaned on tho mantlc-piccound frowned angrily, looking down at,the latter as he spoke. The wife stillsitting by the tea-table, for that mealbad just been finished, did not glanceup as she answered, but went on talking to her lap-dog in terms of fond endearment and feeding lt with sugar.Y esl they wero husband and wife,tioyen years b?foro Carrie Dayton, justIS, freshly freed from tho trammels ofa boarding school, had launched forthinto society with ahead full of romantic ideas of love and marriage. Thereshe luid met with Harry Aylmer. Toher lie seemed almost a god, so far superior lo all others that very speedilyshe. lound herself thinking more of himthan any other admirer and listeningwith bealing pulses lo his tones,.And when ho met Carrie Dayton hefelt thal bo had encountered his fate.To h i iii Ibero was something irresistible in lier bright freshness and beautyand in tho winning gayoty ot her artless ainnners. Then the polished marble of lier fair skin; tho golden curlsI lin * fell around her shoulders: thebright blue eye, full of ?ightj-thoso allposessod rare attractions for this man,whose heart had been so long untouched.Dav after day found him at her side,puning forth every effort to make himself agreeable. 80 after a few briefinbhtha they wove married, and wentforth lo I read life's journey together.They traveled for a while, and theyoung bride, delighted with the newaeches opened up beforo ber, was hardly conscious of tho fact that his will,im: her wishes, guided and controlledall their movements. It was very sweetlo obey ont; she loved so fondly. Atlast tliey settled in 11 home of their own,rcph te with every comfort and luxuryami life began in earnest.New came the crisis. From earlychildhood Harry Aylmer had shownhimself possessed of an ironTwill, sternand unyiehling. (Janie, too, had a !will of her own. For the first few jmonths ol' marri ago it was very pleasantfor her to have him will for her-and 'gracefully she yielded; but at lengththe reins were drawn too tight, the inti-:.se selfishness of the husband been 11 ioapparent even lo ('arrie, and thore began to grow up a spirit of rebellion onher pail, a desire lo judge for herselfsometimes.and act accordingly. Mailers grew from bad to worse.Thew pleasant little courtesies whichM ive lo keep the love burning brightly01, the domestic altar were by degreesutterly neglected, and the lamp of lovegrew dim. After tho lapso of threeyears, however, a beautiful babe lay onIbo mother's bosom. Reconciliationensued-not spoken, hut tacsitly agreedupon. Husband and wife seemeddrawn together by this liftlo goldenlink, and while tho little angel gladdened their home happiness remained.(hita bitter time came, which shouldhave served lo 1111 ito thoso severedhearts more closely. Tho child sickened and jdiod. When tho stricken parents bowed over their dead each inenlaly resolved lo be all in all to eachother, that no shadow should comebetween them; but tho lips Spoke notol' tho resolve made in their ownstrength -piido kept them silent.As tho months passed on tho oldspirit revived in each; and now, aftera few years of wedded lifo, behold thopair whom "God has joined together,"living in almost constant enmity-eachlien rt hardened and cold, never a lovingword or caress, only Silence and upbraiding.Mr. and Mrs. Aylmer bad been asked to an evening party, and both hadexpected to go. Rut tho husband hadcomo home outof humor, Which ho proceeded to vent pu his wife, concludingby saying ha could not go lo tho party.Mrs. Aylmer, vexed at his maunoi' evenmoro than at his words, had replied,I ai fly, that she should go without him.''Tho invital ion bas been accepted; wchs vt* no good reason for staying away;?iud 1, for oho, intend to gol""? J Ul J say you shall not," said thohusband, pushing Iiis chair angrily backfrom the tea table, standing up, takinga turn across tho door, and then goingto tho maullo piece, where ho stood, aswo havo described, looking gloomilydown on his wife."And I say I will," was the retort,as the speaker turned away from Hietable, but retained her seat , and beganto fondle her lap-dog. This was toomuch for tho husband. Tho cool Indifference cut him to tho heart. With asniolhdrcd oath he Hung himself out oltho room, put on his hat in the hall andwent off to his club.When the door was heard bangingafter him Mrs. Aylmer roso from herchair, an angry light in her eyes."1 only half incant, it," .shesaul, "butnow 1 will go. If he had only asked molo remain kindly; if ho said lid wassick, or even tired; if he had smiled onhiii I would have stayed at home. But1 will n il be ordered."Never had she dressed willi morecare. Never had sh o looked morebeautiful flinn when she enlerered herbarringo lo drive lo tho ball.After a couple of hours tho husbandcarno home, for by this timo bis angerwas over, and he felt rather ashamedol'himself. His rage returned, however, when he found that Mrs. Aylmerhad renHy gone, for he had persuadedhimself that after all she would remain."How dare sho defy me thus?" hoj cried angrily. 13llt after a while carnocalmer thoughts. His mind began towander over past years. His heartyearned for the mother ol'his babe.Memory, with her busy lingers, had unlocked (he chambers of his heart, andlier softening iulluonco was doing itswork.The hour giew late, and he began towonder why .she did not return. Oponbig the door, ho looked into Ibo deserted street. A strange dread stole oveihim, for nearer and nearer carno linsound ol'wheels, driven rapidly. Hastening down, as the carriage reacheddie door, he was confronted by a maiwho sprang out, exclaiming breathlessly: "Mr. Aylmer, if you wish to sciyour wife alive, come with me." Amforcing tho terror-Stricken husband inlo the vehiclo, they wero whirled away,Returning from the party, Carri?Aylmer sat alone in her carriage, nothinking of the gay scene she had leftbut of ber unhappy married lifo. Sinwas laking lo herself much blame thaishe bad not been moro submissivemoro forbearing, and wondering iit were too lalo to undo the evil. Tender thoughts ol' the husband, once S(dear, wore stealing into her heart. Suddenly there came the sound ol' inch runliing, the cry of "lire!" the whir of Hwengine, the rear and plunge of horsesthe ineffectual o Ho its of tho driver tioh i roi them; then sho was thrown violI i ly forward, and all was darkness.1 When the repentant husband liaireached tin; side ol' his wife death lauscaled IHM- eyes. Some one bad litte*her fair form and homo it Alto tho nearest house, but the vital spark had fledThe, injury was internal, and not ;blemish bioko (he pure white surface o(he marble face.Carrie Aylmorjnovor looked lovel iethan now, when sho lay Ibero in hegala robes. Her dress of pale-blusilk, with its frost-work of lace ampearls, only made moro {pallid tho rounded form, lately so full of lifo and healthShe bad passed away without pam, amvery placid was tho sweet face, fasgrowing cold in death.Words cannot picture that stron,man's agony. He Hung himself bosh!tho body, and bis voice'grow hoarse witpleading for one moro look, one singhword of forgiveness. Alas! nono cameYears afterwards a grave was dug bstranger hands in a far distant lam?Nou? Ibero know the lonely, brokenhearted man whoso last resting place iwas, had, when alive, borne tho nainof Harry Aylmer, and bad spent lildays evor since that terrible night ivain remorse for that fatal quarrel.Manipulating (be Mandolin.The mandolin is still driving out thbanjo as tho reigning fashionable cn)rico in Now York. Tho only implen:ant feature about it lo tho learner ls Hiknlfc-bladc-liko sharpness of its linwiro strings. Two pairs aro wounwith German silver, and arc not ecruel as the others, but the unwounfour, hardly thicker than horsehair;seem to cut to tho bono tho finger emthat press them down upon the frot:Of course that pain and troublo emwhen each linger of tho left hand is tiped Svith a bony, callous spot, and or.must expect somo such trouble in foining a close acquaintance with ai)stringed instrument. When naturo luprovided that protection, tho mandoliplayer, if an oxport, can produco sonpleasing effects by producing tho lonby percussion on tho strings over tlfrots, instead of by strumming withbit of tortoise-shell hold botweon tlfingers, as tho usual method is.IN A CAVIO Ol.' ?OI,l>.A nowUdoriitg Htory of Iiost HichosWhich Wore Bonrohod Voi"For Many Years.On tho northern bordier of tho groatNational park, whore riso tho toworingpeaks of thu Snow mountains, there haslong lived a man known as "TheWanderer." This man has never Illili,in the many years he has been knownto Hie hunters and trappers of the region,any settled habitation, but hus wanderedbackward and forward through thoSnow mountains, apparently ovoi' on ?tho search for something. Scatteredthrough the mountains he bus severalrude huts in which bo sojourned for afew days at a lime, only lo take upilga in Hie weary cholo of his endlesssearch. Hy the men of l ille and trap hohas long been considered crazy, and theI lillians of tho section have evidentlythought tho same ol' him, and, with Hiewell-known pity entertained by the redtribes for those mentally a filleted by thoGreat Spirit, have never molested himin any way. From a hunter andtrapper (d' the Snow mountains, whowas ht Laramie a few days ago, Iboscribo learned ol' the "Wanderer's"singular life and of his death, whichtook place sonic two months ago. Theold man was found In one ol' hisnumerous halting places by a party olhunters several days after his wanderings had ceased forever.An examination ol' tho papers on bisperson showed that his bad been amadness full of method, and revealed atale boforo which the story ol' Alt liabaand the robbers' cave pales intoinsignificance. Tho old man, whosename was ascertained to be ArthurBethanny, though ho had probably notheard it called for ii score of years,came lo thc Snow mountains abouttwenty-live years ago in the prime, andvigor of a youthful manhood. A nativeof Pennsylvania, his youthful blood hadbeen bred by accounts of the greatWest, and he had started for the newcountry, joining an exploring and binding party al.St. Louis, The parly penetrated into Wyoming, passed throughthe Big Horn basin, and in tho lalo fallol' 1801 found themselves on the headwaters of tho Clarke fork of thc Tollo w:stono. Following up tho Clarke forkthey soon came upon tho cannon of thostream, and, entering it, passed throughand came out among tho mountains intho conti lies of tho great National park.I [ere they inaugurated a ?rand huntamong tho mountain game they foundso plentiful. One day llethannywandered away from the party in pursuit of a hear ho had wounded, andfollowed tho trail into the Snow mountains. Iii a deep and rocky gorge heran his gamo lo earth, and saw himenter an opening in the. side of thegorge. On approaching the opening hosaw that it hi list lead into a cavern ofconsiderable extent, and at oneo boldlyI followed the game. Ile soon found thebear, just dead from its wounds.Hut where did ho lind il V In thomidst ol' a scene of dazzling splendor.The entire interior of the cavern was aj mass ol' virgin gold studded withdazzling gems. From seams overheadthere eamo only a small amount ol'light,and in the seini-obsciirily tho gemsgave forth luminous rays and tho pureoro Ulled tim cavern with a goldensheen. Scarcely aldo to belieyo theevidence of his senses, llethannyexamined the precious stones of thecavern at first with fear and trembling,and Iben with tho wildest transports ofjoy. In tho narrow, rocky scams whichtraversed the golden mass of the cavernwalls he recognized tho diamond'sbrilliant white, tho red llame of theruby and the Hashes ol' beautiful bluishgreen peculiar lo tho turquoise. Withhead in a whirl and heart beatingtumultuously, llethanny left thegorgeous cavern lo tell his comrades ofhis extraordinary discovery, for thorawere enough riches there to make themall Rothschilds. But scarcely had hootnergoil from tho cavern when hefound himself enveloped in a suddonand whirling mountain snowstorm. Invain li? tried again to lind tho cavernoutrance, and in his search bo musthave wandered far away from thelocality. All night tho storm raged,and when morning broke, cold andgray, he found that he was hopelesslylost. Tho snow covered tho ground toa depth of many Inches, and he couldneither lind thc cavo nor his way backto his companions. To bo brief, hepassed tho long winter amid tho deepmountain snows, and when spring carnoat last ho renewed bis search for thocavorn of gold and gems, and searchedfor it until tho day bo lay down to die,tinco months ago,-?><????Tho Measurement, of tho Year.Tho length of tho ye is strictly ?JG5days 5 hours '18 minutos 40 seconds andsovon tonths of a second-tho timo required for the involution of tho oarthround the sun. About 46 li. C., JuliusCaesar, by tho help of Sosigines, anAlexandrian philosopher, caine to a tolerably clear understanding of tho lengthof a year, and decreed that evory fourthyear fihould bo held to consist of 300days for tho purposo of absorbing thoodd hours. By this rather clumsy arrangement tho natural time foll behindtho reckoning, as, in reality, a dayevery fourth year is too much by ltminutes, 10 seconds, and three-tenthsor a second, so it inevitably followedthai, thp beginning of tho year movedonward ahead of the point at winch itwas in the days of Caesar. From thelime of tlic Council of Nice, in 328 A.I)., when the vernal equinox fell correctly on Hie 21st of March, Pope Gregory found, in 1"?82 A. I)., that there budbeen an over-reckoning lo the extent oflu days, and that tho vernal equinoxfell on the 1 llb of March. To correcttho past error, lie decreed tiiat tho 5thof October of that year should bo reckoned as the Ipili, and, to koot) thc yearright in future-tho overplus hoing 18houini t>7 minutes .ind!'.) seconds inacentury- he ordered that every centennial year thal, could not ho divided byfour (1700, 1800,1000, 2100, 2200) shouldnot be bissextile, as it otherwise wouldlie-, thus, In short, dropping the extraday throb timi's every 400 years. Whilein Catholic countries Ibo ( i regor ianstylo was readily adopted, it was not soin Protestant nations. In Britain itwas not adopted until 17.V2, by whichlime the discrepancy between the .lillianund Gregorian periods amounted t J lldays. An act of parliment was passeddictating that the 3d of Septembershould bo reckoned as the 14th, and thatthree of every four centennial yearsshould be leap years: 1600 not hoing aleap year, thc new and old styles nowdllTor twelve days, our 1st of Januarybeing equivalent to the 1.8th old style.In Russia alone of Christian countriesis th? <dd stylo retained. The old stylois still retained in tho Treasury accountsof Great Britain. In (dd times thoyear was hold lo begin on tho 25th ot*March, and this usago or piece of antiquity, is also still observed in the computations of Ibo Chancellor of tho British J'jhxchouquer. So tho first day ofthe .il..,n\c;itl year ia tho otb of April,being "Old Lady Day."How to Cook Oysters.A lady who is famous for ber oystercooking, and who has boen for yearsmaking a collection of choice recipes,contributes a few whoso excellence andnovelty she can vouch for. A "mockmast" is easy and delicious. Theliquor is first drained from tho meatsand any chanco pieces of shell removed;Iben tho oysters aro placed in a fryingpan and set upon tho lire, where, asfast as the liquor collects it, is drawn off.This process is continued until theoysters are clone brown, when they aroserved hoi, with fresh butler."billie pigs in blankets" aro madeby first draining tho oysters and seasoning willi salt and pepper, and thenculling fat bacon into very thin slicesand wrapping a big oyster in each slice,I fastening if willi a woodoo skewer-atoothpick is best. The frying-pan mustbo heated well before the little pigs aroput in, and they must bo cooked longenough for tho bacon to crisp. Theyare to bo served immediately on toastcut into small pieces.Panned oysters are very nice ami aresavory and digestiblo for invalids. Thooysters must be drained and bits ofBhell removed. Thoy must then be putinto a liol pan containing a tablespoonful of butter, half a lovel teaspoonful ofsalt, and a little popper to a quart ofmeals, and cooked over a brisk Uro untilthey begin to curl, which wdll be in fiveminutes. Thoy can bc served hot ontoast or eaten plain.A'more elaborate dish is an oysterloaf. Tako a stnlo loaf of bread andeut ont the heart of it with a sharpknife, being earoful not to break thccrust, Which must still keep tho formof the loaf. Break tho crumbs up verylino and dry them slowly in tho oven.When dried fry three teacupfuls of themin two tablespoonfuls of hot butteruntil thay aro brown and crisp. Put aquart of cream to boll, and when ltboils stir in tbreo spoonfuls of Hourwhich has been mixed with half a cupof cold milk. Cook this a low minutesand season with salt and pepper. Itmakes a rich eroam sauce, l'ut a layerof this Inside tho loaf, then a layer ofoysters previously seasoned with saltand popper, thou another layer of sancoand ono of fried crumbs. Alternatethoso until tho loaf is full, having tholast layer a thick one of crumbs. Bakoslowly half an hour andaorvo In ii foldednapkin or a dish with sprigs of parsley.Iron pipe ls muoh stiffer for a glvonwolght than solid iron. For a glvonoutside diametor 'he Iron bar will boarho most woigh'HOW PEMMICAN IS MADE.Two Ways of Preparing It for Uso asFood-"Kub-a-Boo" and..Kousseau."Tho meat, cut in long (lakes from thowarm carcass of tho b?llalo ami driedin tho sun, is af forward beat?n intoshreds by Hails upon a door of buffalohide on tho open prairie. Thc hldo isthen sewed into ii bag, tho meat jammedin, tho lop sowed up all but on? corner,into which more meat is browned, andthen tho fat, which bas meanwhile boontried, is poured in scalding hot, tillingevery crevice. A species of cranberryis often ?ulded with tho meat. Thowhole forms a bolster shaped bag, assolid and as heavy ?ts slono, and tn thiscondition it robin j ns, perhaps for years,until eaton. Kach b;i<r weighs fruin 100to 120 pounds. Ono who has tried ilwill not wonder that it was onco usedin tho turmoils of tho contests betweentho Northwest and Hudson Haycompanies to form ti redoubt, armedwith two swivel guns.Thjcro aro two ways of preparingtliis -ono called "rub-a-boo," when itis boiled in a great deal of water, andmakes a soup-, the othor more favoritodisli is "rousseau," when it is throwninto a frying i>an, fried in ?ls own fat,with the addition, perhaps, of a little,salt pork, aird mixed with a smallamount of Hour or broken biscuit,lint sometimes, when philosophers archard put lo it, and forced to take theirmeal In Hie canoe, thc pemmican iscuten raw; chopped out of Ibo bag with?i hatchet, and accompanied simply bytho biscuit, which has received thosobriquet of "lied river granite. " Thesewonderful objects, as huge as seabisca '. aro at least thrCa-quarlors of aninch i . thickness, and against them tholint it.-.dist's geological hummer is alwaysbrought into requisition.lint the "infidel dish," as rousseau istermed, is by comparison with thcOthers palatable, though it is even thenimpossible lo so disguise it ns lo avoidtho suggestion of tallow candles-, andthis and tho leathery, or india rubber,structure of tho meat arc its elliot disqualifications. Hut oven rosseau maylose its charms when taken as a steadydiet tinco times a day for weeks,especially when it is served in ti fryinglian, and, breakfast or dinner over, onosccs tho re menants with tho beef orpork all hustled together in tho boilingkottle; tho biscuit, broken bannocksand unwashed cups placed iii tho breadbag; tho plates, knives and forks lossodinto Hie meat dish; and all, combinedin the ample folds ol' nh old bit ofgunny cloth, which has served daily atonce ?is dishcloth and tablecloth, throwninto tho canoe lo rest until tho nextmeal, when at last Billy linds timo towash thc dishes-tho tablecloth never.Wells la logia.Wells arc naturally greatly prized intho hot, arid parts of India, and manyHindoos earn great renown by making(hem where they aro much needed..Some religious peoplo seek for merit intho construction of large, wells in publicIhroughfurcs and other places for Ibopurpose of supplying travellers withwaler. Very often peoplo uso thomfor irrigating their holds. A largo well,built of st rong masonry, with a circularwhite smooth platform round if forpeople, to sit. on when they draw ordrink water, costs from 2,000 to ,1,000rupees. Even tho wants of tho brutocreation ure not overlooked by tho Hindoos. They made reservoirs of strongmasonry, about live or six yards longand a yard Wido, adjoining a well, ai?din the hot season these arc always keptlilied with willer. Returning fron? pasture or from tho Ileitis in tho forenoonfor repose, and retirinji at dusk for thenight, -whole droves of cows, bullocks,buffaloes and goats slake their thirsthero. Land-owners and wealthy menvie with each other in constructingthese wolls and reservoirs; and princessometimes imitate tho cxamplo of theiropulent subjects. Tho average cost ofan ordinary well bas boon estimated tobe about three or four hundred rupees.Of course it varies not only accordingto tho depth of water and kind of soil,but also to tho kind of labor employed.Somo peasants, who, with members oftheir own families mako wells themselves, have been known to have constructed them, especially where thowaler is near tho surface, at a triflingcost of 100 rupees each. Nevertheless,oven in th oso parts of tho country wherotho cost is very moderato, the wells aroinsnlllclont. Wells havo been objectsof great endearment with somo villagers. Not satisfied with wasting timoand money in tholr own and their children's marriages and in thoso of idolsand trees, thoy Bomotlmes marry wollswith great pomp and ceremony. Insomo parts of tho country wells aroworshipped, and votivo offerings arooften soon lvlncr near thomI>I;AI> MINGUS.isolation of This Class or EnglishToil o r.s.The pay of tho miner has had Hs pe*oulhirity. By tho fathom of groundworked, or hy tho ''bing" of lead produced, it was impossible to measure thowork dono by a company of miners veryoften, boneo the wages settlements woronot frequent, and there was a customof paying a given weekly sum on account-a sum which had tho graphicnarnu of "subsistence money." Withsettlements thus delayed, some of thominers necessarily ran accounts longwith tradesmen; and if the lead wasfound in less quantities than had beenexpected, and tho settlement yieldednothing to tho miner, the deb!, wouldperforce go on from limo to limo andcases have been known of men wholived long and died in debt, while othershave been recorded in which unexpected mining success enabled a miner toclear off the debt of years-bis own,and even that of a father. The writerhas been a shopkeeper in a mining village received from a miner severalpounds in clearance of a debt incurredyears before by a stepfather, who hadpassed away from mines and debts.There is comparative isolation of Hieminers, owing to tho nature and tholocation of thc work and that isolationhas lcd to tho preservation of customsthat havo passed away elsewhere andled to tho retention of dialects andlocalisms in speech. Modes of speechare quaint; olden words aro retained,and at limes peculiar methods of description ol' individuals needed wherethere are many scions of similarlynamed families; and in .some of theplaces of worship, especially when "supplied" by local preachers, there aro indications of the quaintness and of oldcustoms. In places the choir is stillaided by liddle and bassoon; the preacher will employ a dialect that puzzles thounaccustomed to follow it, and tho singing has moro heart than melody. Butin tho dales it is certain that much oftho religious lifo is due lo tho offorls,unwearied and unp.iid, of theso localpreachers. In tho schools, too, oftenbegun by tho proprietors of tho mines,thero aro tho indications of tho comparative poverty of some of the peoplo,of tho varying dialects, and of tho patient struggle in tho "hard tl ines" thatso often fall on tho lead miners; for, oflate, Spanish and American "cheaplabor" have done much to ruin tho loadtrade by flooding this country with leadoften rich in silver, and therefore preferred to that of our own dales.Demand l'or a Smaller Coin.There is a growing demand in Brooklyn, N. Y. for a smaller coin than thocent. Tile little red coin has traveledwest until it has reached tho shores oftho Pacific, whore it may bo sa id .to meotthe brass cash of Cathay, amino smaller coin is needed in tho west. Buthere a halt-cent would tend to preventwaste muong tho poorer people. Thusthero are plenty ol' toys which uro retailed at 1 cent each which could bo,and would bo, profitably sohl at half acent. Ono must buy an oven numberof pounds of sugar and an even numberof .some kind ol' goods, or loso half acent. It will sound mean to somo people to bear one complain of thc loss ofhalf a cent, but tho old Scotch proverbabout wilful waslo and woeful wantcan not bo ignored. "Tho standardcoin of Franco is tho franc," said aFrenchman to mo, "and it is as big acoin as a dollar is here. That is because we have also tho centime-a fifthof your cont. It would mako Americaricher to givo tho peoplo a half-centcoin."Tin; Theatres ot'Berlin.Tho cost of tho royal theatres in Berlin, including the opera-house, duringtho last twelve months has reached thosum ol' two and a half million marks.Tho Emperor's yearly contribution outof his privy purse is 150,000 marks; butin addition to this bo also pays thedeficit, which is very considerable.Tho non-romunerativo portions of thoroyal theatre system are tho opera andtho ballet. Tho legitimate stago alwaysyields a handsome surplus. All thomembers of tho royal family havo theirboxes, for which they regularly pay thoduo annual rout, although some of themdo not onco enlor tho theatres duringtho season. For overy special imperialperformance tho Emperor invariablypays the whole cost. These performances tako placo at tho visits of foroignprinces to Berlin, great parades, andpublic celebrations. Tho failuro of thoopora to pay its way is due in a greatpart to tho tremendous wages of singingfolk. Horr Niomann, tho tenor, has toappear for forty-eight ovonings duringsix months, and for each ovonlng ho baaan honorarium of 750 marks. Thisequals 36.000 marks a year,